This site is an expanded and significantly upgraded version of the Flickr Commons based tool I created several years ago. As well as a major design/UX overhaul, it now includes data from further providers (see full list below). I'd welcome further suggestions as the harvesting tool and database are easily extendable.
For information, questions and bug reports please contact James Morley @jamesinealing | james@jamesmorley.net
Current totals by data source
Current totals by date accuracy
Breakdown of institutional data retrieved through Europeana
Het Nationaal Glasmuseum - 22336 items; Sjöhistoriska museet - 11809 items; Bohusläns museum - 7936 items; Vänersborgs museum - 7561 items; Kulturarv Västernorrland - 4090 items; Rijksmuseum - 3241 items; Tekniska museet - 2444 items; Armémuseum, Stockholm, Sweden - 2317 items; Karlsborgs fästningsmuseum - 2007 items; Miliseum - 1287 items; Örebro läns museum - 1254 items; Flygvapenmuseum - 1058 items; ModeMuseum Provincie Antwerpen - 1042 items; Marinmuseum - 735 items; Skansen - 629 items; Österreichische Nationalbibliothek - Austrian National Library - 579 items; Riksantikvarieämbetet - 381 items; Stiftelsen Nordiska museet - 288 items; Historisch Museum Ede - 254 items; Stedelijk Museum Zutphen - 221 items; Ajuntament de Girona - 106 items; CODA Museum - 103 items; INP - National Heritage Institute, Bucharest - 103 items; Upplandsmuseet - 102 items; The Archaeological Heritage Agency of Iceland - 95 items; Aaltense Musea - 58 items; Stadsmuseum Harderwijk - 56 items; Sundsvalls museum - 50 items; National library of Montenegro "Đurđe Crnojević" - 44 items; Länsmuseet Gävleborg - 37 items; Nederlands Openluchtmuseum - 31 items; Vasamuseet - 28 items; Images of Old Cluj - 27 items; Nederlands Tegelmuseum - 20 items; Postmuseum - 18 items; Δήμος Τρίπολης - 11 items; Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem - 9 items; Cluj County Library - 9 items; Slovak National Library - 8 items; Csorba Győző Könyvtár - Pécs - 7 items; Stadskasteel Zaltbommel - 7 items; Stichting Liemers Museum - 6 items; Lietuvos dailės muziejus - 4 items; Žemaičių muziejus „Alka“ / Samogitian Museum "Alka" - 3 items; Deventer Musea - 3 items; NOC*NSF - 3 items; Nationalmuseum, Sweden - 2 items; Wikimedia Commons Community - 2 items; Lietuvos švietimo istorijos muziejus / Museum of Lithuanian Education History - 2 items; Rippl-Rónai Megyei Hatókörű Városi Múzeum - Kaposvár - 2 items; Museum Elburg - 1 items; National Library of Bulgaria - 1 items; Horniman Museum and Gardens - 1 items; jNederlands Openluchtmuseum - 1 items; Lietuvos dailės muziejus / Lithuanian Art Museum - 1 items; Kauno IX forto muziejus / Kaunas 9th Fort Museum - 1 items; A. Baranausko ir A. Vienuolio-Žukausko memorialinis muziejus / Antanas Baranauskas and Antanas Vienuolis-Žukauskas Memorial Museum - 1 items; Slot Loevestein - 1 items; Museon - 1 items
Breakdown of institutional data retrieved through Flickr Commons
The U.S. National Archives - 1730 items; The Library of Congress - 1093 items; SMU Libraries Digital Collections - 1038 items; State Library and Archives of Florida - 912 items; State Library of Queensland, Australia - 891 items; Cornell University Library - 840 items; bibliothequedetoulouse - 821 items; Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons - 567 items; Swedish National Heritage Board - 559 items; National Library of Ireland on The Commons - 494 items; State Library of New South Wales collection - 402 items; Vestfoldmuseene | Vestfold Museums - 385 items; MissouriStateArchives - 371 items; National Library of Australia Commons - 295 items; NASA on The Commons - 262 items; Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums - 249 items; National Library of Norway - 229 items; Royal Australian Historical Society - 216 items; Deseronto Archives - 183 items; Provincial Archives of Alberta - 177 items; Powerhouse Museum Collection - 170 items; UW Digital Collections - 123 items; National Library NZ on The Commons - 123 items; UA Archives | Upper Arlington History - 114 items; National Library of Scotland - 105 items; Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest - 89 items; Australian War Memorial collection - 88 items; Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office Commons - 78 items; National Archives of Estonia - 67 items; Museum of Photographic Arts Collections - 64 items; Stockholm Transport Museum Commons - 61 items; Liberas / Liberaal Archief - 59 items; National Museum of Denmark - 55 items; Costică Acsinte Archive - 49 items; The Gallen-Kallela Museum - 46 items; Archives of the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle - 46 items; Museum of Hartlepool - 45 items; George Eastman Museum - 33 items; San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives - 32 items; The National Archives UK - 31 items; tyrrellhistoricallibrary - 29 items; Preus museum - 27 items; Fylkesarkivet i Sogn og Fjordane - 21 items; OSU Special Collections & Archives : Commons - 21 items; The Finnish Museum of Photography - 20 items; National Science and Media Museum - 17 items; Schlesinger Library, RIAS, Harvard University - 9 items; Huron County Museum & Historic Gaol - 7 items; Smithsonian Institution - 4 items; Getty Research Institute - 4 items; Svenska litteratursällskapet i Finland - 4 items; The British Library - 2 items; Camden Public Library (Maine) - 2 items; Center for Jewish History, NYC - 1 items; Kalamazoo Public Library - 1 items; Aalto University Library and Archive Commons - 1 items;
The data has been harvested from providers using some custom php scripts to query respective APIs based on dates. Data is harmonised and stored in a local mySql database.
Additional jQuery plugins are used to enhance the display, including Masonry and Bootstrap Image Gallery (based on blueimp).
The website code and generated data is openly licensed so please feel free to copy, modify, distribute as you please (subject to any restrictions as imposed by the content and toolset providers).
William Henry Cockrem 9784, Royal Marine Light Infantry: Plymouth Division
Died 12 August 1914
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Able Seaman James William Sharp SS2923, (RFR. P.O. B/6978). H.M.S. "Europa"
Died 12 August 1914
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2nd Lieutenant Montagu Barclay Granville Proctor Beauchamp , Norfolk Regiment
Died 12 August 1915
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Captain Arthur Holmes Gore , 1/8th Bn., Hampshire Regiment
Died 12 August 1915
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Lieutenant Alexander Young James , Hampshire Regiment
Died 12 August 1915
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Lieutenant Colonel William Morriss Armes , Suffolk Regiment
Died 12 August 1915
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Private Henry Hamilton Cairns 1365, Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
Died 12 August 1915
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Private Walter Ballard 8/2453, Hampshire Regiment Territorial Force
Died 12 August 1915
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Private William Harold Buckett 8/2370, 1/8th Hamps Regiment Territorial Force
Died 12 August 1915
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Rifleman Arthur Jack Watson 8/1805, Hampshire Regiment
Died 12 August 1915
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Second Lieutenant Edmund Maurice Buckley , Royal Welsh Fusiliers
Died 12 August 1915
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Second Lieutenant Ernest Christopher Elmhirst , West Riding Regiment
Died 12 August 1915
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Second Lieutenant Leon Arthur Gaffney , 6th Royal Munster Fusiliers
Died 12 August 1915
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Bombardier Basil F Smith 50603, Royal Field Artillery
Died 12 August 1916
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Lance Corporal Arthur Russell Espury 26608, Essex Regiment
Died 12 August 1916
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Lance Corporal Thomas Watts 8186, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 12 August 1916
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Nursing Sister Christine Jay , Queen Alexandra's Military Nursing Service for India
Died 12 August 1916
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Private Albert Rushbrooke Long 17178, Norfolk Regiment
Died 12 August 1916
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Private Ernest Purdy 18222, Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)
Died 12 August 1916
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Private James H Hilton 7790, King's Own Scottish Borderers
Died 12 August 1916
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Private John Abershaw 5/4187, York and Lancaster Regiment
Died 12 August 1916
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Private Stephen Grady 13101, King's Own Scottish Borderers
Died 12 August 1916
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Private Walter Edmund Powell 66632, Royal Army Medical Corps
Died 12 August 1916
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Private William Cassell 5/3770, York and Lancaster Regiment
Died 12 August 1916
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Private William Hallsworth 14435, York and Lancaster Regiment
Died 12 August 1916
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Second Lieutenant Harry Watson , The King's (Liverpool Regiment)
Died 12 August 1916
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Second Lieutenant John Mortimer Maddox , Lancashire Fusiliers
Died 12 August 1916
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Second Lieutenant Leo Bernard Parsons , The Buffs (East Kent Regiment)
Died 12 August 1916
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Captain Cecil Dunbar Hutchinson , South Staffordshire Regiment attached Royal Flying Corps
Died 12 August 1917
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Captain Rodric Mathafarn Williams , Royal Flying Corps
Died 12 August 1917
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Private Albert George Jarvis GS/65703, Royal Fusiliers
Died 12 August 1917
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Private Edward John Stevens 10582, Wiltshire Regiment
Died 12 August 1917
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Private Ernest John Bentley 202040, Durham Light Infantry
Died 12 August 1917
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Private George Smith 23666, York and Lancaster Regiment
Died 12 August 1917
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Private Herbert Carter GS/16529, Royal West Kent Regiment
Died 12 August 1917
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Private John William Dewsnap 24590, Yorkshire Regiment
Died 12 August 1917
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Private Silvester John Richard Hunt 8021, London Regiment
Died 12 August 1917
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Shipwright 1st Class Frederick Charles Jenking 346232, H.M.S. "Minotaur"
Died 12 August 1917
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Staff Nurse Hilda Mary Garlick , Territorial Force Nursing Service
Died 12 August 1917
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George Charlesworth 39758, Wellington Infantry Regiment
Died 12 August 1918
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Captain Eric Archibald McNair VC , Royal Sussex Regiment
Died 12 August 1918
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Private Burgoyne Frederick Anderson 235357, Lancashire Fusiliers
Died 12 August 1918
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Private Frank Mellor 40517, Duke of Wellington's (West Riding) Regiment
Died 12 August 1918
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Private Ismael Florius 9265, British West Indies Regiment
Died 12 August 1918
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Private Percival Gordon 15753, British West Indies Regiment
Died 12 August 1918
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Private Valleton Went 11772, British West Indies Regiment
Died 12 August 1918
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Private William Turnbull 23815, King's Own Scottish Borderers
Died 12 August 1918
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Lieutenant Colonel Gerard Evelyn Leachman , Royal Sussex Regiment
Died 12 August 1920
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General Sir Horace Lockwood Smith-Dorrien, G.C.B., D.S.O. , Commander Second Army
Died 12 August 1930
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Lance Corporal Thomas Tutawake Morgan, M.M. 16/1370, 3rd NZ Maori Pioneer Battalion
Died 12 August 1938
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Lieutenant Colonel James Hargest O.B.E., D.S.O. and two BAR, M.C. 9/286, Otago Infanrty Regiment
Died 12 August 1944
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Private Septimus Hand 266427, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
Died 12 August 1971
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